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| | The Melpomene district lays directly in the center of the city. It is the most commercial, heavily populated area in the entire city, and because of this it also has the busiest station in the entire city.
It's architecture is an oddly unique style. When the area of Melpomene was first created, it was rapidly built to hold as many Humans and Vampires as it could. Squeezed in as tight as possible, there was little or no space build anything extra ... such as transit stations. When, finally Melpomene Station was built, there was little room to fit it in, without knocking down half the neighborhood. So the architects of the time decided to build around the buildings.
From the outside, the station appears crafted out of Victorian-style brick houses. Old boarded up windows can be seen facing outward on the upper two levels, while the ground floor has an entrance that appears to be made simply by the builders knocking down the entire walls of two of the priorly occupied houses.
The inside is slightly the same style, but with obvious modern adjustments fitting of a transit station. The floor, while cracked and stained with cigarette ash, was originally made from buffed and polished white stone, but appears to have had a few cement reparations done to it of recent years.
As you enter the building, you notice three things in particular. One is the dominating massive electronic destination screens for the trains. When a train pulls in to one of the 8 platforms, it is updated by a Human controller so that it is shown on the destination screen for all the many hundreds of Human and Vampire individuals wishing to travel. A second thing one notices is the massive glass rooftop. Because the station was fitted into the interior of 3-4 old houses, the floors and ceilings had to be removed from the insides so that they wouldn't collapse when they took away the support beams and pillars. The glass roof acts as a shield to the rain, and gives the quirky station an odd charm to it's character. The houses that were adjacent to those that were used as the station's interior obviously had an alleyway separating them, at least on the west side of the building. This is obvious because even on the inside of the station, there are dozens of windows facing inward from neighboring houses. Some of these houses are vacant, some are still lived in, but the walls from the inside of the station were still kept to represent that original Melpomenian look ... patchy red and yellow brickwork, evidently repaired many times over.
The station itself is open night and day, and is often packed with Humans traveling off to this part of the city or that to get to work. Strangely enough, the station remains fairly silent and unfriendly but for the voice of the tannoy system announcing frequent delays.
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